Word: clutches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specialties for 1935 are all-steel roofs and a power-vacuum gear-shifter called the "electric hand." Attached to the steering column directly under the wheel is an instrument connected with magnets on the transmission. A flip of the ringer selects the desired shift. Then, when the clutch is depressed, a mechanism on the transmission, actuated by the manifold vacuum, shifts the gears. If an optional automatic clutch is used, the shift occurs when the foot is raised from the accelerator. Thus in traffic the "electric hand" may be set at second speed before a shift is necessary, the shift...
...Fayette was Nash's bid for the low-priced market last year but spring production was delayed and only 14,000 were sold. Featured this year are a sealed cooling system, wide (60-in.) rear tread, clutch-pedal starting, individual front-wheel springing optional on the special models...
...reported that rifle fodder was being rounded up in Soviet districts along the Polish frontier, remote from either Moscow or Leningrad, the scene of the crime. Twelve were arrested in White Russia, 37 in the Ukraine far to the south. As an afterthought the Government, having let in the clutch of its machine of systematic Terror, described the nondescript persons shot last week as "Terrorists...
...tops and egg bottoms and overall cooling two or three times every 24 hours. Hatchings in his imitative incubator averaged 78% as against 55% obtained on the average in Russia in uniform-temperature incubators. Last week it was reported that Zoologist Meshcheryakov had hat bed every one of a clutch of ostrich eggs, a feat rarely accomplished even by a mother ostrich...
...Cologne museum. When Adolf Hitler came into power indignant Nazis spirited it away, whither no man will tell. Approximately 9 x 9 ft., War depicts a jungle-like ravine choked with abandoned corpses and military refuse. Grass grows from skulls that have spilled their brains; hands without bodies clutch vainly after life; a cadaver on the skeleton of a twisted barricade rots in mid air. The whole gives the murky impression of a submarinescape...